Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-17
DALLAS.
IsquirTEg After 8 Lest Bre.har-Pe.
rents Alarmed at the Absence Of
Their 14.Ye8r.Gld Daughter.
suit Filed Against the City OF East Dallas.
q Postal Clerk Given a Preliminary
Hesrirg-CouTt and City Council.

for three years, dating from May l, 1855.
when tbs present ease expires. The con-
sider&sion is $4,000 per apnum.
Bishop Gregg of the Protestant Episco
pal church delivered an able address OF
the Church of the Incarnation last night,
taking for his subject, "The History and
Growth OF Dallas for Perioa Of Thirty
Years.
A slight accident occurred on the San
JsciBto street railway last evening that
partook of the serlous SIS well az the hu-
ulorous. The negroes in trucking cotton
from the compress across Austin street
into the yards go st fearful speed, one
running with the truck, the other push
iGg. Yesterday evening two Of them
were thus engaged, when street
car came nyirg around
the corner and the darkies and their cot
ton colIided with the car with terrific
force, throwing the bale OF cotton against
the windows, breaking out several lights.
The ladies screamed, thinking the rsil
road train had run sgsinst the Car, but
when order prevailed it was found 10
great damage had been done save bruis
ing he Sepegambisns some That.
Oficer Rushing passed through the
city this morning en- route from Fort
Worth to the convict camp near Piano,
having in charge an escaped convict
named Starke, WHOM he had captured at
Fort Worth. Starke has been at large
nearly year, and is serving out q five
years sentence for theft. The prisoner
was On the eve OF taking the train for
I'll P&so when the ofllcer arrested him.
Mrs Susan Williams Of Bayou Sara,
La, writes Chief OF Police Arnold inquir-
iug after lost brother, WalIer Diil!ag-
hsm. She says that q Mr. Perkins in ihe
Windsor hotel here writes her that her
| brother was dtliTlous and that be YVES
taken &c the hospital and escaped thai
night. Nothing has been seen or heard
Of him since. She pleads with the officer
70 sid her in finding him. SINE OF the
! Q I'll GERS are Of the opinion that the body
| found in the river was that of Dillingham;.
! MIR. and Mrs. II. NJ. Swain Of 2lS E m
street are alarmed and distressed beyond
measure at the absence of their fourteen
year old daughter, Alice, who left home
Monday and has not been seen or heard
of since by her parents. They thought
| that perhaps while in fraaky way she
! had gone to Denison to Zee gone reIS-
lives she has living there, but the wire
gave back the answer that she was not in
tnst Place.
| THE CITY COUNCIL,
The City Council held an adjourned
session lsst night to pass upon bids for
the erection Of the new city ball. Mayor
Conner presided. The bids were opened
and read IS follows, in the order they
were opened:
?. J. Butler, ISL. 565; Illtngsworsb,
z minis & Sormvheld, S97,52 J. Al.
Harry & Co., 1913, 500; j. A. Johnson,
| $50, 900; W. T Cortmap, 1913, 855; Ed. c..
! Smith and RaIrall, $94, 05O; zach bid Was
accompanied by check for $1,000, as an
evider &c Of good faith. On motion of
alderman Cockrel, chairman OF the
! 6nence committee, all the bids were re-
tered to 8 special committee with in
stIuctiOns to report ct the next regular
meeting. The Mayor appointed IS such
committee Aldermen Rowley, Mitchell
and Louckx.
| Alderman Louckx offered resolution
instructirg the committee on streets and
bridges, in conjunction with the City
EugineeF, to wait on the County Judge
aId County Commissioners in regard to
the subject OF what they would be willing
10 have the county 90 toward the work.
After transacting lot Of routine bust
ness OF minor importance the Council
went into executive session.
SUIT AGAINST EAST DALLAS.
! James Seaman d.ed suit in the District
court to-day vs.. the City Of East Dallas
for tue sum Of S2055 for work and ma
| teriel, over and above the contract and
specifications, expended on and in the
East Dallas school building. Also for the
] . ~. a., r,
or Caeck drawn by Ulrich, the author
iz=d agent CT East Dallas, in favor OF S.
E Clark, and which VAS transferred by
! CLARK to rim.
REAL gsTAIE TRANSFERS.
r z. Henry TO MTs. Lou T. White,
twenty scres Of the Mcmillan survey !;
$500
s ?. Smith and wife to Mrs. Lou F.
WHITE, sixsv-six end nine-tenths acres of
| the Hoover survey; $500
G. W. E9rly TO S. Il. Cumby, forty
acres On the Trisity river; $40.
Dallas Land and Loan Company to T.
a Low, lot 6, block IL, Oak Cliff; $3.50.
| Squire Campbell and wife to ). H..
Johnson, q lot on Allen street; $500.
| BUILDING PERMITS.
Fred Simon, 25x80, one-story frame,
1908 Elm street, $S25.
W. Jordan, Ave one story france, lex
! %, Flora street, between Leonard aud
Peak, $1,000.
| Seth Saepard. one-story addition, Ask
Sc, corner Of Ervay and Cadiz, $500.
COURT NOTES
The grand jury will sdjourn Friday
snd give dinner in their grand dining
hall.
One Of the celebrated cases of the
State VS.. Eugene Bowen, charged with
the theft of cattle, which was brought
! from the Ellis county District court TO
! this court by virtue OF charge Of
venue, is on trial before Judge AIdridge.
Ire defendant is charged in number OF
casee with the theft of cattle. and there
are IL witnesses to testify IN the case.
| a. &. MiFrell, formerly postal clerk in
| the postot1ce st Ladonia, who was gr-
rested some time since On the charge Of
having stolen postal notes and filing ont
| the blanks for various sums, and then
csshing them, had preliminary hearing
before United States Commissioner
Bently to-day and was bound over IN the
sum OF $3.50.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
w. G. Huffman and Allie o. Neall;
Eanrna Haih uoo5s. L